Samuel



(Model.)

S. APPLETON.

. STOGKING.

No. 828,287. Patented July .28,y 1885.

UNITED SAMUEL APLETON, OF BRISTOL, PENNSYLVANIA.

STOCKING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,287, dated July 28, 1885.

Application filed May 28, 1884. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL APPLETON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Stockings, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is, mainly, to so knit a stocking that a self-contracting garter will be formed therein, la further object being to produce a stocking with such contracted garter and a seamless ankle. These objects I attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which shows a stocking made in accordance with my invention.

In the stocking, between the upper end or knee portion, a, and calf b, is formed a contracted garter, d, ywhich is produced by a change in the character of the stitch, the port-ions a and b being tucked, while the portion dis of plain continuous fabric, the consequence beingthat the'port-ion d of the fabric is closer and has more tendency to contract than the tucked portions a andi). The same plan is resorted to in making'the ankle and foot of the stocking. rlhus the portion f below the calf b is also of plain continuous fabric, which is contracted to the same diameter as that of the garter d, the ankle thus being formed without any cutting or sewing of the fabric.

The tuck shown in the drawing is what is known as a one-and-one tuck-that is to say, during the formation of one course onehalf of the needles, say, the first, third, fifth,

seventh, ninth, and so on, fail to press off their i stitches, and thus receive double loops, while on the next course the alternate needles, two, four, six, eight, ten, Ste., fail to press off, and receive double loops, and so on throughout. I may, however, employ a two-and-two tuck, a one-and-three tuck, or any other form of tuck which the character of the work to be produced may suggest as the most appropriate.

In making my improved stocking I use an ordinary round head withbearded needles and tuck and plain presser wheels, which are thrown into action alternately to produce the tucked and plain portions of the fabric; and, if desired, a gage of yarn may be used in the portions a and b of the stocking different from that employed for the portions d and f.

I claim as my inventionl. A stocking having the upper portion, a, and calf b knitted with a tuck, and an intermediate contracted garter, d, of plain continuous fabric, as set forth.

2. A stocking having the upper portion, a, and calf b knitted with a tuck, and a contracted garter, d, and contracted ankle f of 6o plain continuous fabric, as set forth.

In testimony whereof' I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL APPLETON.

Vitn esses:

JOHN M. CLAYTON, HARRY SMITH. 

